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Great Eastern Hotels

circa 1890s

Itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Outings, 1903-1911

1903-1911

GER: To the Continent by the Harwich Steamer

1914

GER: The Official Guide to the Great Eastern Railway

1910

Itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1911

1911

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1907

1907

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1903

1903

Itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1909

1909

Great Eastern Railway Company order of service

1922

Royal Wedding - Departure from Liverpool Street Station of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York

1893

Great Eastern Railway menu card

1912

Restaurant Cars Wine List and Tariff for Third Class

1919

Great Eastern Railway Liverpool Street City Terminus drawing

circa 1864-circa 1875

Great Eastern Railway cheap excursions

1888

Parkeston Quay Harwich

1912

Harlow Garden Village

Steam locomotive, number 1217, Great Eastern Railway

1905

St Pauls Cathedral divine service

1919

Itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1910

1910

portrait of charles hubbard

Yarmouth South Town bench

1862-1922
Telegraph Block Instrument, Great Eastern Railway, 2-position absolute block type, sending and receiving with tapper and combined gong.

Telegraph Block Instrument

Semaphore signal arm with integral spectacle and secondary spectacle, two glasses cracked, crossing gate signal, lower quadrant, Great Eastern Railway, made by EC & JK Ltd.

Semaphore signal arm with integral spectacle and secondary spectacle

Semaphore signal arm with integral spectacle, green glass missing, crossing gate signal, lower quadrant, Great Eastern Railway, made by Saxby & Farmer, London.

Semaphore signal arm with integral spectacle

Model steam locomotive, scale 1:8, Great Eastern Railway 4-4-0 passenger express No. 1900 "Claud Hamilton", prototype built 1900, model built 1900 by George Perry, Erecting Shop foreman at Stratford Works, awarded Gold Medal at Paris exhibition in 1900.

Model of steam locomotive "Claud Hamilton"

1900
Plate, ceramic, Great Eastern Railway, white glaze with black geometric pattern around rim with pink lining, marked at centre garter ‘Engineers Saloon’ enclosing ‘GER’, by Royal Crown Derby.

Plate, GER Engineer's Saloon

Plate, ceramic, Great Eastern Railway, white glaze with black geometric pattern around rim with pink lining, marked at centre garter, 'Engineer's Saloon' enclosing 'GER', by Royal Crown Derby.

Plate, GER Engineer's Saloon

Notice. Great Eastern Railway. National Co-Operative Festival, Temperance Fete (and other London attractions). Excursion tickets will be issued from Yarmouth (South Town) to London (Liverpool Street) on Saturdays 11 and 18 July 1903. Black text on yellow background. Printed at the Company's Works, Stratford. Stuck to card. Losses to bottom centre. Format: double crown. Dimensions: 30 x 20 inches, 762 x 508mm

national co-operative festival

1903
Staff notice. Great Eastern Railway. It is essential for the welfare of the nation that the railways should be maintained in an efficient manner, and be prepared to meet any military demends which may be placed upon them. This cannot be done if the Staff is seriously depleted and.....it is requested that in future anyone in the service of the Company wishing to enlist will first ascertain from his departmental office whether he can be spared from his railway duties. September 1914. Black text on white background. Printed at the Company's Works, Stratford.

welfare of the nation

1914/09
Platform bench, Great Eastern Railway, monogram on bench ends, cast by Warner, London, 1900-1910.

Platform Bench, Great Eastern Railway

1900-1910
Reprinted Eastern Union and Eastern Counties Railways poster from June 1st 1848. Reprinted by the Great Eastern Railway at the company works, in 1898. The poster gives details of trains traveling between London, Bury, Ipswich, Hadleigh, Colchester and the Hadleigh branch of the Eastern Union Railway.

Reprinted EU & ECR poster

1898
Model steam locomotive, scale 1:8, Great Eastern Railway 4-4-0 passenger express No. 1900 "Claud Hamilton", prototype built 1900, model built 1900 by George Perry, Erecting Shop foreman at Stratford Works, awarded Gold Medal at Paris exhibition in 1900.

Model of steam locomotive "Claud Hamilton"

1900
Handbill, Great Eastern Railway, 'Cheap Mid Day Excursions to Stratford', with times and prices, 2395/3/22, March 1922, dimensions 212 x 144mm, badly mounted on paper with letters regarding the offer of the handbill.

Cheap mid day excursions to Stratford'

1922
Notice, Great Eastern Railway, "Comrade Roger Smith' informing workmen of his passing, issued by James Allthorpe and William Curtis, September 17th September 1897.

Comrade Roger Smith

1897
Great Eastern Railway handbill advertising a day excursion to Yarmouth and Lowestoft, on Thursday 17th August, 1911. Dated July 1911 and signed by Walter H. Hyde.

Great Eastern Railway handbill advertising a day excursion to Yarmouth and Lowestoft

1911
Great Eastern Railway handbill advertising cheap excursions to the international health exhibition on Mondays between the 6th and 20th October 1884. The handbill is dated September 1884 and is printed on yellow paper.

Great Eastern Railway handbill

1884
Handbill, Great Eastern Railway, 'Rail and Boat Excursions to Harwich and Ipswich Thursday 4th October 1866', With fares and times and handwritten note on the reverse, 23rd September 1866

Rail and Boat Excursions to Harwich and Ipswich Thursday 4th October 1866

1866
Tickets, card tickets in buckram-covered guard books, photograph album and box, GER, GNR and LNER Specimen Ticket Collection, 1900s to 1930s. The collection comprises specimen Edmondson-type tickets of every class and type from the GNR and the LNER. Tickets are numbered 0000 and many are stamped 'Specimen.' Many of the tickets are grouped by the LNER operating sections, and there are unusual and rare items such as perambulator tickets, tickets for agricultural shows, exhibition tickets etc. etc. The GER tickets include WC, sailor on duty and music hall artist tickets. Housed in 9 guard books and 1 modern photo album, plus 2 small boxes of loose tickets. Several thousand tickets in total. Collection originated at the Railway Printing Office, Stratford, East London, which was established by the GER and continued by the LNER. The specimens were saved by the last Master Printer, a Mr. Townley, on the closure of the office in the 1950s. He passed the collection to his son, who bequeathed it to The National Archives.

GNR and LNER Specimen Ticket Collection

1900-1939
Notice of the timetable of a Special Train conveying His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales from Wolverton to London on 16 November 1868, issued by Superintendent's Office, Bishopgate Station, Great Eastern Railway.

Royal train timetable

1868
Button, GER, Waistcoat button, depicts dragon's wing within star, silver plate, Dimensions: 1/2" dia.

GER waistcoat button

Button, GER, Jacket button, depicts dragon's wing within star. Silver plate 3/4" dia.

GER jacket button

Button, Great Eastern Railway, Coat button, depicts dragon's wing within star, silver plate, Dimensions: 1" dia.

Coat button, Great Eastern Railway

Map of Great Eastern Railway main lines and connections, on reverse suburban lines and connections, scale 1 mile - 1 ".

Map of Great Eastern Railway

1900-1923
Proforma, signalman's and driver's tickets for double line block telegraph failure working, Great Eastern Railway.

Proforma, signalman's and driver's tickets for double line block telegraph failure working

1900-1923
Left luggage ticket issued by the Great Eastern Railway, Bishopsgate Station, London.

GER left luggage ticket

Timetable No. 1 Supplementary Working Timetables of special passenger trains & other arrangements for week ending 17 June 1893, for Bass & Co.'s excursion to Yarmouth & back, issued by Great Eastern Railway.

no 1supplementary working timetables of special passenger trains

1893
Card showing Lord Claud J Hamilton, Chairman and John Foster Esq, Deputy Chairman of Great Eastern Railway

Card showing Lord Claud J Hamilton

Menu card, Great Eastern Railway, [unidentified].

GER menu card

1910
Plan of Cambridge Station and surrounding area, Hills Road to Mill Road, scale 1 chain - 1" Great Eastern Railway land agent's office, revised 1909.

Plan of Cambridge Station and surrounding area

1909
Travel guide, Great Eastern Railway, Seaside and Countryside in East Anglia, by Percy Lindley, illustrations by Oscar Wilson, describing resorts around the East coast of Britain, 64 pages, with card cover.

GER: Seaside and Countryside in East Anglia

1915